What It Means

Love the sig line.

Our’s was Penn State on the road. Hell, GA Southern is better than Arizona.

Sure the SEC ring is a monumental achievement when you share a division and conf with so many top teams. I’ll love seeing that flag fly no matter the outcome on the 9th.

But I will never forget what it is like to have an also-ran team. Or what it is like to be happy to have an also-ran because you plain sucked for years before that. This team had a season for the ages. No doubt that a loss to Bama in the rubber match will lessen the glow, but it can’t change the rarity of an undefeated regular season, including beating a damn good Bama team in spitting distance of the strange looking Saban statue, or beating UO in the Jerry Dome on MNF, and on and on.

Look at the positive impact of UO’s last three years that all included bowl losses (until yesterday) and zero NC rings. I hope I never get to the point that it is national championship or bust. That really makes for a shitty year as there are only so many games to enjoy in a 12 month period. If only one counts, I need a new sport.

Until August we will hear about it. Next year may be even better but let’s not let this one get away. NC ring beats an SEC ring, ignore what Bamers say.. We NEED that NC ring even if we are playing against the team that won the BCS “clap-o-meter” for #2.
Bama has the advantage of playing in a game and gaining redemption for a no-SEC ring season.

THEY JUST………………………..forgot to play offense

I’m saying “these are the immense stakes” and saying we’re going to win. We’re going to win because that’s what we have to do to seal the deal. No way we’re losing to some team we already beat on the road.

Greatest Season Ever. That’s what’s on the table.

I hope it is so lopsided that the commentators can’t help but spend the 4th quarter playing "what if" on behalf of OK St.

I WANT THIS. SOOOOOO BADLY.

Maybe two, depending if Auburn climbs their way back in. Bama did not win their conference or their division. Bama’s accomplishments are incredibly slight, the only thing they can hang their hat on is playing LSU to a close game at home. Your best win is a loss. Bama has a really good team, but their resume is incredibly thin.

Yes, Bama is in the game because it had a better PR campaign. And Bama, after losing to LSU, didn’t have to play its way into the title game by winning the conference, like LSU did.

And I’m not rewriting history — if LSU wins, they will have won four games against teams ranked in the top five at the time of the game, and three in the final poll. LSU will have won the toughest conference and beaten two other BCS conference champions. They will have played the NCAA rated toughest schedule in the nation, and no team save one will have come within 13 points. That is among the single greatest seasons in history — that is what is on the line. Not even 2001 Miami or 1996 Nebraska had a season quite like that.

And, unlike Bama fans, we aren’t afraid of pressure. We welcome it.

Anyway, good luck! You win and you will rewrite history as one of the greatest teams to have played the game.

“The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win.”-Bear Bryant

So if we win, we rewrite history. And if we win, you will have new excuses why you didn’t or couldn’t win?

But that is OkSt’s fault. They play defense, they would win more respect. And the Big 12 has justifiably lost respect—division within the ranks, bad math, no D, cannot win the big one. We are the two best teams in the land. You win, there is no question who is the best. And you have te bragging rights of having beaten Bama twice in one season.

It’ s not our fault we didn’t get that chance. Slive proposed a playoff 3 years ago and the Big 12 and Big 10 were adamantly opposed to it. So if we want to assign blame , start with Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio State who fought the playoff because they knew they would get the benefit of voter support. It’s also not our fault Ok State blew a fourth quarter lead and lost to a 4 touchdown underdog.

I’m tired of everyone blasting Alabama like we cheated our way into the BCS game. We didn’t create the system, and anyone else would have lobbied for their team to make it in as well.

I don’t think anybody’s ever denied 2007 here. Though at least LSU was able to win it’s own division that year.

And Ohio st was the only team who had a better record than us. Every other team in the nation had at least 2 losses; and if you want to play the “best loss” game, both of our losses came in 3OT, so they were the “best losses”.

No doubt we backed into that game, but it was also a crazy weird year in College Football where no team went undefeated, and no team could hold onto the #1 spot for longer than a week. The only other teams who were mentioned that year was a WVU team that lost in the last week to Pitt, Mizz who lost their Conference Championship to OK, and Georgia who didn’t even play in the SEC Championship Game.

At the end of the day, we had the better resume: SEC champs, better wins, and best losses. No one will argue that we backed into that game, but there was no other team that could make a case compared to ours. Many had the opportunity, but top teams were just losing week in and week out that year. And we destroyed OH ST, just to show that even the team with the best record was still overrated.

You can’t back in as a conference champion that won a conference championship game.

Some of you people really need to get your definitions straight. You back in to things when you lose and still get to go or when you win exactly nothing and still get to go. You won neither a conference nor a division this year. Hell, you didn’t even win your state and somehow you’re in the national title game b/c of how rankings (people’s opinions) work.

And if you still believe we backed into the BCS title game in 07, please tell us who was more deserving to go in our stead.